Urgent, being used as spam relay Please Help!

http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html

And if you can read German:
  http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~ca/email/

In case you use a SUN you may have to download the
   sendmail 8.8.8 from ftp.sendmail.org

Good Luck

> To:            lir-wg at ripe.net
> Reply-to:      lir-wg at ripe.net
> Subject:       Urgent, being used as spam relay Please Help!
> Date:          Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:29:51 +0100
> From:          NCC local-ir list Moderator <lir-mod at ripe.net>

> 
> ------- Forwarded Message
> 
> Date:     Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:59:42 -0000
> From:     "Mark Simcoe" <msimcoe at netcentral.co.uk>
> To:       <local-ir-list at ripe.net>
> Subject:  Urgent, being used as spam relay Please Help!
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have just been used as a smtp relay for one of the US spam
> companies and it crashed one of our mail servers, the service
> remained unaffected as our backup systems took over but we use
> sendmail and I cannot seem to find out how to stop us from being
> used in this fashion.
> 
> I know this is not the correct list for this sort of thing but I
> need some expert advice as our software suppliers don't know how to
> stop it.
> 
> As a general warning to everyone out there we need to protect our
> systems from these people who are starting to use us all to deliver
> their mail for them without paying us a penny.
> 
> Please someone help,
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
> ------- End of Forwarded Message
> 

> 
> ------- Forwarded Message
> 
> Date:     Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:59:42 -0000
> From:     "Mark Simcoe" <msimcoe at netcentral.co.uk>
> To:       <local-ir-list at ripe.net>
> Subject:  Urgent, being used as spam relay Please Help!
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have just been used as a smtp relay for one of the US spam companies and
> it crashed one of our mail servers, the service remained unaffected as our
> backup systems took over but we use sendmail and I cannot seem to find out
> how to stop us from being used in this fashion.
> 
> I know this is not the correct list for this sort of thing but I need some
> expert advice as our software suppliers don't know how to stop it.
> 
> As a general warning to everyone out there we need to protect our systems
> from these people who are starting to use us all to deliver their mail for
> them without paying us a penny.
> 
> Please someone help,
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
> ------- End of Forwarded Message
> 
> 
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